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parkersweb commented on Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source   omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/g... · Posted by u/CharlesW
lucb1e · 9 days ago
Where possible, I've stopped picking fonts that don't distinguish lowercase l and uppercase I. Words virtually always have redundancy (or context in the sentence) and it's fine in 98% of cases, but too often someone sends a token, password, name, or other string where you need to copy it out to another application to see it and just... why? Why bother?

I/O test for Sans Flex: https://snipboard.io/wXCQq5.jpg

It passes the O0 distinction but not the Il one

Example of a font that passes, Ubuntu: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Ubuntu?preview.text=10%20I... (custom license but looks similar to GPL in that you can do what you want besides relicensing it as proprietary or removing credits)

Another one, Nunito Sans, using the Open Font License: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Nunito+Sans?preview.text=1...

IBM Plex Sans is another Open Font License option: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/IBM+Plex+Sans?preview.text... (it has an unusual capital Q style though)

parkersweb · 9 days ago
Many fonts have a disambiguation option. Inter by default doesn't pass the I test - but it can be enabled.

Google Flex Sans supports font-feature-settings: "zero" - but doesn't seem to support lower-case l, upper-case I disambiguation.

parkersweb commented on The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle   fxrant.blogspot.com/2025/... · Posted by u/tosh
mapontosevenths · 18 days ago
A few years back I had the sudden realization that I'd upgraded all my video equipment to HD and then 4k, but hadn't really done anything with my audio. So I went out and got nice equipment (Nice DAC, Headphones, Speakers, Etc).

One of the first things I learned once I could hear music properly was that I had favorite "versions" of different albums. They truly are NOT created equally, but it's not something you can really appreciate on a crummy Bluetooth headset either. Once you can you really start to appreciate the work that folks like your friend do.

parkersweb · 17 days ago
I also spent quite a bit of time with some quite well known mastering engineers in a former career - many of them talked about the pressure to produce "loud" masters for CD, but how they were given much more creative freedom for vinyl releases.

Hearing the two masters side by side on some incredible speakers really gave me an appreciation for how different 'versions' of an album can transform the experience of the music.

parkersweb commented on Amazon launches Trainium3   techcrunch.com/2025/12/02... · Posted by u/thnaks
parkersweb · 18 days ago
When they're in short supply can we name them Unobtranium?
parkersweb commented on The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle   fxrant.blogspot.com/2025/... · Posted by u/tosh
rob74 · 18 days ago
Stories like this regularly make the rounds when movies or shows that the original creators put a lot of love and thought into are "remastered" on the cheap. The last one I saw was the story about the garish colors in digital versions of old Pixar movies - amongst others, they intentionally exaggerated green hues in the digital original to compensate for the transfer process to analog film stock which was less sensitive to green. When Disney transferred the movies to digital formats and streaming, they took the digital original 1:1, so the colors now look off (https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-story-you-...)
parkersweb · 18 days ago
Through work I once got into conversation with the guy who did the re-mastering into 96kHz of the ABBA back catalogue. Up until that point CD re-releases of their material was apparently all converted from the cassette masters where they'd massively exaggerated the HF to compensate for the fact that cassette had a notoriously terrible HF response...
parkersweb commented on Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file   pocketbase.io/... · Posted by u/modinfo
Humphrey · 24 days ago
I've been trying out Pocketbase on a side project idea. I'm super impressed!

Having worked for many years on Django projects, Pocketbase seems like a perfect fit for those small to medium sized projects for which you don't want to create and maintain a traditional backend for.

Happy to answer any questions.

parkersweb · 24 days ago
I’ve been using on a personal side project - but found that LLMs seem to be permanently confused over how to interact with pocketbase - to the point where I’ve even tried creating a Claude Skill to try and reduce the confusion.

Wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience?

parkersweb commented on What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription   nmil.dev/what-you-can-get... · Posted by u/nmil
cyrusradfar · a month ago
A few months ago we'd had Disney+, Paramount+, Hulu, HBO Max but we've cut back to Netflix and YouTube premium.

Switched to purchasing and renting when there's something we want to watch that isn't available and we're finding it to force us to be more conscious of what we're watching.

We're considering ditching Spotify and music streaming to return to buying albums so our children can start to be more thoughtful listeners. After falling down a rabbit hole of some insider music vlogs, I recognized how much streaming is harming independent music.

parkersweb · a month ago
On the music side, the current trend for vinyl has been a really great thing for my teenage kids. My eldest (who according to Spotify listens to about 130k mins of music a year) has really discovered an appreciation for the arc of an album when he has to spend the time loading up a disc.
parkersweb commented on Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model   book.sv... · Posted by u/costco
jimmoores · a month ago
I unexpectedly liked this. I thought the recommendations were actually useful.
parkersweb · a month ago
I sadly didn’t share that experience - I fed it my goodreads most recent - but it largely picked up on 2 or 3 series I’ve been slowly working my way through so that most of the recommendation list was ALL the other books in the series (and the spin-off series) so I didn’t really get anything useful…
parkersweb commented on Claude Haiku 4.5   anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/adocomplete
RickHull · 2 months ago
If I'm close to weekly limits on Claude Code with Anthropic Pro, does that go away or stretch out if I switch to Haiku?
parkersweb · 2 months ago
Anecdata point - I’ve been running for around 3-4 hours this morning constantly using Haiku and it hasn’t hit the limit - currently at 74% and it resets in 1.5 hours. I think it’s safe to say you get a fair bit more usage over Sonnet.

Still trying to judge the performance though - first impression is that it seems to make sudden approach changes for no real reason. For example - after compacting, the next task I gave it, it suddenly started trying to git commit after each task completion, did that for a while, then stopped again.

parkersweb commented on M5 MacBook Pro   apple.com/macbook-pro/... · Posted by u/tambourine_man
parkersweb · 2 months ago
As an M1 owner seriously tempted by the hardware, seriously put off by Tahoe…
parkersweb commented on Claude Haiku 4.5   anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/adocomplete
RickHull · 2 months ago
If I'm close to weekly limits on Claude Code with Anthropic Pro, does that go away or stretch out if I switch to Haiku?
parkersweb · 2 months ago
I’m also really interested in this - in fact it’s the first thing I went looking for in the announcement…

u/parkersweb

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